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Today's feasts

Feasts:
The Conception by Saint Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos;
Saints:
Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of ProphetSamuel (ca.1100 BC);
Saint Vassa (Bassa), Patrician and Igumenia of a female monastery in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of St Menas, whose Abbot was the Bishop Stephanos of Jamnia;
Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded (ca.284-305);
Martyr Isaac;
Martyr Nerses of Persia, by the sword;
Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword (553);
Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus (6th c.)
Saint Stephen “the New Light” of Constantinople (912);
Saint Syrus of Pavia, first Bishop and main patron-saint of Pavia in Italy (ca. 1st c.);
Virgin-martyr Valerie of Limoges (Valeria of Aquitaine), converted by St Martial of Limoges and beheaded (1st or 3rd c.);
Virgin-martyr Leocadia (Locaie), in Toledo, Spain (ca.303);
Saint Proculus of Verona, Bishop of Verona, a confessor during the persecution of Diocletian, reposed in peace (ca.320);
Martyrs Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus and 20 other Companions, in North Africa;
Saint Cyprian, a monk at Périgueux in France, who ended his life as a hermit on the banks of the Dordogne (586);
Saint Restitutus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa and Martyr;
Saint Balda, third Abbess of Jouarre in France (7th c.);
Saint Budoc (Budeaux), born in Brittany, became Abbot of Youghal in Ireland, then Bishop of Dol in Brittany (7th c.?);
Saint Ethelgiva (Æthelgifu), the daughter of King Alfred the Great, became first Abbess of Shaftesbury (896);
Saint Wolfeius, a hermit at St Benet Hulme in Norfolk in England (ca. 1000);
Saint Enguerrammus (Angilram) 'the Wise', monk and Abbot of Saint Riquier in France (1045);
Hieromonk Anthymus the Athonite, "Fool-for-Christ";
New Hieromartyr Vladimir, priest (1919);
New Hieromartyr Vladimir, priest and Virgin-martyr Ephrosia (1920);
New Hieromartyrs Protopresbyter Basil Yagodin, and priest Alexander Buravtsev (1937);
New Martyr Priest Sergius Mechiev of Moscow (1941);
New-MartyrArchpriest Paul Levashov of Gomel;
Other Commemorations:
Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem (335);
Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophroniev Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802);
Repose of Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian on Mt. Athos (1867);
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy".

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The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora."